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Inspector General cites possible crimes by social workers
Honeycutt-Spears, Valarie. Lexington Herald-Leader, Jan. 12, 2007, pg. A1.

For the past year, some parents have been telling officials that state social workers acted spitefully, falsified documents or lied to judges in an effort to take their children away, in some cases permanently.

Many of the complaints involving child removals and state adoptions are valid, according to a report released yesterday by Kentucky's inspector general for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

The report, which followed a yearlong investigation of the social service office based in Elizabethtown, showed that workers there may have committed criminal acts in at least 13 cases.

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Are Foster Parents as valuable to the State as they say? I think it would be to the State's advantage to at least look into all cases where the State looses one. There is quite a bit of money involved in training a Foster Parent, just to let them be brushed off like a flea on your sleeve! I know those State workers and the Agency works both are very valuable and hard to get, but the Fosters are also. Your handbook states that we must let the children have freedom of religeon, so don't be making us sign papers to take away our religeous freedom either. Everyone that had to sign that paper should have sued the Agency or the State over it.

Herald-Leader, Jan. 12, 2007, pg. A1.

For the past year, some parents have been telling officials that state social workers acted spitefully, falsified documents or lied to judges in an effort to take their children away, in some cases permanently.

Many of the complaints involving child removals and state adoptions are valid, according to a report released yesterday by Kentucky's inspector general for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

The report, which followed a yearlong investigation of the social service office based in Elizabethtown, showed that workers there may have committed criminal acts in at least 13 cases.

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